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Ending Medical Reversal: Improving Outcomes, Saving Lives

Ending Medical Reversal: Improving Outcomes, Saving Lives

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Health GeneralMedical Reference

ISBN10: 1421429047
ISBN13: 9781421429045
Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
Published: May 1 2019
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Why medicine adopts ineffective or harmful medical practices only to abandon them--sometimes too late.

Medications such as Vioxx and procedures such as vertebroplasty for back pain are among the medical advances that turned out to be dangerous or useless. What Dr. Vinayak K. Prasad and Dr. Adam S. Cifu call medical reversal happens when doctors start using a medication, procedure, or diagnostic tool without a robust evidence base--and then stop using it when it is found not to help, or even to harm, patients.

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